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CVE-2023-20877

22
FAUCET Score

CVE-2023-20877 is a high-severity privilege escalation vulnerability in VMware Aria Operations and vRealize Operations, allowing an authenticated user with ReadOnly privileges to execute code and escalate privileges. With a CVSS score of 8.8, it has a low attack complexity and does not require user interaction, leading to high impacts on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. There is currently no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
>= 4.0, <= 4.5CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:vmware:cloud_foundation:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
8.6.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:vmware:vrealize_operations:8.6.0:-:*:*:*:*:*:*
8.6.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:vmware:vrealize_operations:8.6.0:hotfix1:*:*:*:*:*:*
8.6.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:vmware:vrealize_operations:8.6.0:hotfix2:*:*:*:*:*:*
8.6.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:vmware:vrealize_operations:8.6.0:hotfix4:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

8.8HIGH

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
2.8
Impact Score
5.9
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.65%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
47.5%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0065 is in the 39th percentile among its peer group of 17,829 CVEs.

Social Chatter

No social media mentions found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.3 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Vendor Patches (1)

vmwarevendor investigatingvia nvd_reference
View patch

References

vmware.com / security/advisories/VMSA-2023-0009.html
Vendor Advisory